Theater program is made up according to the concept of the festival Art of War. Art of Peace. Art of Love. Theater can’t ignore the events that take place in Ukraine, so this year the main emphasis is on new drama and documentary theater – areas that work with reality and living witnesses.

The program includes not only performances, but also readings of the new plays, master classes and presentations. Wide regional program will be presented, for example, for the first time people of Kiev will be able to see the Beautiful Flowers theater from Kharkiv with Sergei Babkin, and modern musical R+J from Lviv. Documentary performance Nikolaevka is created with the participation of adolescents, who survived war in their city. Oppositional Theater.doc from Moscow, which is banned there for anti-Putin views, will bring two performances. Teatro Di Capua from Saint Petersburg, owners of the Golden Mask Award, will perform a spectacle called Life for the Tsar, based on the documents and letters of the Narodnaya Volya party members. Polish theatre Biuro Podrózy will show a street performance devoted to ethnic conflicts.

Best Kiev premieres will be located on the VDNH squares, and it will be a challenge both for filmmakers and audience and for the location itself, which is permeated with a pretentious Soviet era spirit and post-Soviet decline. This year performance and play premieres by Vlad Troitsky and the whole theater program is intended to remind you that theater is a mirror, theater is an analyst and a lifesaver, experiencing war, full of love and hope for peace.